ABSTRACT
Com a finalidade de assegurar a qualidade da alimentação servida em uma Unidade de Alimentação e Nutrição (UAN) hospitalar, vários cuidados precisam ser adotados em razão do seu complexo funcionamento. Uma forma de monitorar essa qualidade seria a avaliação feita pelos serviços de Vigilância Sanitária; entretanto, não se dispõe de legislação específica nem de instrumento capaz de proporcionar a máxima precisão. O objetivo deste trabalho foi construir e validar o conteúdo de um instrumento, denominado Instrumento de Avaliação de Unidades de Alimentação e Nutrição (IAUAN) para avaliar a qualidade dessas unidades hospitalares no aspecto das condições higiênico-sanitárias. Este foi construído mediante estudo metodológico e com base nas dimensões de estrutura, dos processos e dos resultados, fundamentados na legislação geral sobre alimentos, na literatura científica, em instrumentos já utilizados por alguns serviços de Vigilância Sanitária e na experiência prática do autor. Para a validação do conteúdo do instrumento empregou-se o método Delphi, de consenso, adaptado. Participaram desse processo dez especialistas das áreas de Segurança Alimentar, Vigilância Sanitária ou Nutrição em Unidade de Alimentação e Nutrição Hospitalar...
To assure the quality of the food or meals served by a hospital food service some cares need to be taken especially considering its complexity. It is a unit production that involves not only different sorts of materials and human resources as well as equipment and routines. Therefore, such unit ought to have mechanisms to guarantee the quality of the food supplied. A way to monitor such quality would be the assessment conducted by services of sanitary monitoring. Nevertheless , there is neither a specific legislation nor a specific instrument able to evaluate the quality of this service with maximumprecision. The purpose of this study was to construct and to validate an instrument to evaluate the quality of the hospital food service concerning the hygienical sanitary conditions. The instrument was constructed based on the dimensions of structure, processes and results, on the general legislation on foods, on scientific literature, on instruments which have already been used by some services of Sanitary Monitoring and on the experience of the author. For the validation of the content of the instrument an adapted version of the Delphi method, of consensus, was used. Ten experts from the areas of Alimentary Security, Sanitary Monitoring or Nutrition in food service and Hospital Nutrition agreed to participate. They were requested to give their opinion regarding the instrument as a whole, so as to the way the questions were presented and their comprehension. Moreover, they could suggest the modification or the exclusion as well as the inclusion of new questions. The specialists had to analyze the described parameters mentioned above and also they were supposed to classify each question in Recommendable (R), Necessary (N) Essential (I) and Informative(INF)...